13-letter words containing nc
- councilmember — a member of a council, especially a legislative council.
- councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
- countenancing — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
- country dance — a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line
- country-dance — a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.
- credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
- credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
- cross-benches — (in the UK parliament) an area for members who are not allied to a particular party
- crossbenchers — Plural form of crossbencher.
- currency bond — a bond payable in legal tender.
- currency rate — the rate of exchange of a particular currency against another
- currency unit — a unit of money, such as the pound, dollar, or euro, that is used in a particular currency
- cyclone fence — a heavy-duty, chain-link fence, usually high and often topped with barbed wire
- dactyliomancy — the use of a suspended finger-ring for divination
- dance company — a group of dancers, usually including business and technical personnel
- dance hostess — a woman who hosts a ball at her house
- dance therapy — the use of dance or movement for therapeutic purposes; a form of therapy in which people are encouraged to express their feelings through dance or movement.
- dancing class — a meeting of a group of student dancers for tuition in dancing
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- dataveillance — the surveillance of a person's activities by studying the data trail created by actions such as credit card purchases, mobile phone calls, and internet use
- dating agency — an agency that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- debit balance — the amount of money owed to a lender, etc
- deconcentrate — to make or become less concentrated
- defervescence — the abatement of a fever
- defervescency — Alternative form of defervescence.
- delinquencies — Plural form of delinquency.
- deliquescence — the process of deliquescing
- denouncements — Plural form of denouncement.
- denunciations — Plural form of denunciation.
- desynchronize — Disturb the synchronization of; put out of step or phase.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- disappearance — the act or an instance of disappearing; a ceasing to be seen or to exist.
- disco dancing — dancing at a disco
- disconcerting — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- disconcertion — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- discrepancies — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
- disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
- disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disincentives — Plural form of disincentive.
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- distance race — a running race longer than 1500 meters (1635 yards).
- distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- double bounce — (of the ball in tennis, table tennis, etc) two bounces on the same side of the net before a return
- downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.